Medical Definition of Exon shuffling
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Process by which the evolution of proteins with multifunctional domains could be accelerated. If exons each encoded individual functional domains, then introns would allow their recombination to form new functional proteins with minimal risk of damage to the sequences encoding the functional parts.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exon Shuffling
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